Perishing Quote by Ayn Rand Download Open image “The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.” — Ayn Rand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Perishing Sacrifice Self World
For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others. — Bolesław Prus Copy Share Image
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help… — Plato Copy Share Image
In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners… — Henry Grattan Guinness Copy Share Image
Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Go on, dear brother; but an inch of time remains, and then eternal ages roll on for ever--but an inch on which we can… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
